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Didn't we discuss this a week ago? The White Sox many years ago made a pact with the devil under which none of their players would ever get injured, and in exchange they had to employ Ozzie Guillen as manager for ten years.

That would seem to insinuate that I'm not very bright, sure, but I really can't figure out what this guy thinks "Nate" (or me) would get out of cooking the books to slant the numbers against the White Sox on purpose.

If you want to outperform your Pythagorean record, the best thing to do is to find a really crappy pitcher and put him in the game whenever you are down by a bunch of runs. That way you add to your runs against without changing any outcomes. The 2012 Blue Jays underperformed their Pythagorean record by one game. If they'd only given up 18 extra meaningless runs in blowouts then they'd have outperformed Pythagoras by one game. If John Farrell had managed to find more a bunch more mopup innings for Jesse Chavez, or had put Omar Vizquel on the mound a few times, then he would've outperformed Pythagoras and been a certifiable genius. Hopefully now that he is in to a more saber-aware organization he'll take such steps to improve the team's performance vis a vis Pythagoras.

EDIT: And Guillen's run, I think, was significant. That's not what I'm babbling about.

If you want to outperform your Pythagorean record, the best thing to do is to find a really crappy pitcher and put him in the game whenever you are down by a bunch of runs. That way you add to your runs against without changing any outcomes.

This explains why the Dbacks have Adam Eaton on the roster. But in typical wacky Dback style they hired the wrong Adam Eaton.